Popular
In pattern BKRBRKBKRKWKRK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3354
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — Popular (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — Popular (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
B/16 K32 R34 DB38 R8 K4 B14 K6 R6 K4 W10 K2 R6 K/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Popular Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 1987. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Some mention of MacDougall and a Wilson connection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.13
- Popular — ΔT 0.62
- American St Andrews Societies — ΔT 0.78
- Unnamed - C19th (Annie Oakley) — ΔT 1.05
- Carnegie — ΔT 1.07
- Auld Alliance — ΔT 1.11
- MacLagan of Glenquiech — ΔT 1.12
- American Bi-Centennial — ΔT 1.15
- Dalrymple of Castleton Portrait Tartan Tartan Number: 1780. Earliest known date: 1720 Reconstructed and woven by Don Rankin from illustration. Sample in STS collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.15
- Quebec Centennial #2 — ΔT 1.16
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s14/b16k32r34ba38r8k4b14k6r6k4w10k2r6k6-b5c8ca8-ba2c2c80-k101010-rc80000-wfcfcfc/